BT Price increases coming

[m419]

BT are increasing there prices again.

Line rental currently £12.79 is going up by 50p
1471+3 is going up to 16p
Call connection fees are going up
Daytime Calling costs are also going up.

BT has already scrapped the off-peak call rate between 6pm and 7pm and between 7am and 8am Monday to Friday.

More reasons to take all 3 services with Virgin Media!

Line Rental: £11.99 (Over £13 per month with BT from October)
Calling Features: £2 (£2.59 each with BT)
Calling Features pack: £3.50 per month (£5 per month on BT) for 3 services
Quick Dial Calling Feature: BT Does not offer this
Anonymous Caller Rejection: £2 per month,free for some ex-NTL users and £4 per month on BT.

BT 118500: £1.16 per minute
Virgin Media's 118180 service: 25p per call plus 30p per minute or 40p flat rate on 118878.

If you know people on Virgin Mobile, you also get inclusive calls to them from your landline.

Virgin TV vs BT Vision Silver: Virgin TV L package offers the same equivalent with live tv channels, BT Vision only offers freeview channels and ESPN plus with the option to add Sky Sports 1 and 2.

Virgin Broadband vs BT Infinity: Well for a start its cheaper,faster and more reliable than BT and also covers more areas than BT Infinity oh and its not capped.

So if you take all 3 services think again about paying crazy prices when you can get a lot more from somewhere else! Even Sky offer more for less, don't be fooled by BT's ads.

I think BT's prices are over the top and seriously recommend people not to join. Those in contracts may be able to get out early.

http://bt.custhelp.com/app/answers/d...re_CallChanges

[Cobbydaler]

Strange, those prices for line rental look nothing like those here?

There are two ways to pay your BT landline rental. During your order, you can choose either:

1. £11.54 every month (with paper-free billing and Direct Debit)
2. £9.49 a month equivalent, when you pay 12 months in one advance card payment of £113.88 (Line Rental Saver)

• Save £24.60 per year. Cheaper than Sky, Virgin & TalkTalk
• Get the convenience of paying by Direct Debit
• Save paper with paper-free billing

NB. You need to make at least two calls a month to avoid a £1.50 monthly charge. Payment is non-refundable.

If you already pay monthly BT line rental it will show in your order and you can switch to Line Rental Saver if you choose.

[Charlie_Bubble]

Originally Posted by m419

BT are increasing there prices again.

Line rental currently £12.79 is going up by 50p
1471+3 is going up to 16p
Call connection fees are going up
Daytime Calling costs are also going up.

BT has already scrapped the off-peak call rate between 6pm and 7pm and between 7am and 8am Monday to Friday.

More reasons to take all 3 services with Virgin Media!

Line Rental: £11.99 (Over £13 per month with BT from October)
Calling Features: £2 (£2.59 each with BT)
Calling Features pack: £3.50 per month (£5 per month on BT) for 3 services
Quick Dial Calling Feature: BT Does not offer this
Anonymous Caller Rejection: £2 per month,free for some ex-NTL users and £4 per month on BT.

BT 118500: £1.16 per minute
Virgin Media's 118180 service: 25p per call plus 30p per minute or 40p flat rate on 118878.

If you know people on Virgin Mobile, you also get inclusive calls to them from your landline.

Virgin TV vs BT Vision Silver: Virgin TV L package offers the same equivalent with live tv channels, BT Vision only offers freeview channels and ESPN plus with the option to add Sky Sports 1 and 2.

Virgin Broadband vs BT Infinity: Well for a start its cheaper,faster and more reliable than BT and also covers more areas than BT Infinity oh and its not capped.

So if you take all 3 services think again about paying crazy prices when you can get a lot more from somewhere else! Even Sky offer more for less, don't be fooled by BT's ads.

I think BT's prices are over the top and seriously recommend people not to join. Those in contracts may be able to get out early.

http://bt.custhelp.com/app/answers/d...re_CallChanges

Shame VM can't even offer me caller display, a most basic feature....

[Sirius]

Originally Posted by Charlie_Bubble

Shame VM can't even offer me caller display, a most basic feature....

Yes considering the money VM are spending on there broadband upgrades you would think they would spend a bit of it on upgrading the exchanges to allow this very very basic operation of a Exchange.

[m419]

Originally Posted by Cobbydaler

Strange, those prices for line rental look nothing like those here?

Those prices are until October.

And not everyone pays by direct debit or can pay by direct debit. Either way both quoted prices are too expensive.

The cost of landlines these days overall is making it less worthwhile having, compare it to Voip like Vonage or even mobile networks which offer up to 2,000 anytime minutes to anywhere in the UK for as little £25 per month.

Like payphones and pagers, landlines are a dwindling market.

[Turkey Machine]

Originally Posted by m419

Those prices are until October.

And not everyone pays by direct debit or can pay by direct debit. Either way both quoted prices are too expensive.

The cost of landlines these days overall is making it less worthwhile having, compare it to Voip like Vonage or even mobile networks which offer up to 2,000 anytime minutes to anywhere in the UK for as little £25 per month.

Like payphones and pagers, landlines are a dwindling market.

You say that, but everybody needs a landline for internet access in this country. Virgin practically force the phone line on you even though it's not necessary.

Until genuine fibre internet (none of this Hybrid Fibre/Coax rubbish Virgin touts as "fibre optic broadband") takes off in this country landlines are pretty much a given. I would baulk at paying more than £11 or £12 a month for one though.

[weesteev]

Originally Posted by Turkey Machine

You say that, but everybody needs a landline for internet access in this country. Virgin practically force the phone line on you even though it's not necessary.

Until genuine fibre internet (none of this Hybrid Fibre/Coax rubbish Virgin touts as "fibre optic broadband") takes off in this country landlines are pretty much a given. I would baulk at paying more than £11 or £12 a month for one though.

Saying HFC is "rubbish" is a bit of a bold statement surely?

[Peter_]

Originally Posted by Turkey Machine

You say that, but everybody needs a landline for internet access in this country. Virgin practically force the phone line on you even though it's not necessary.

Until genuine fibre internet (none of this Hybrid Fibre/Coax rubbish Virgin touts as "fibre optic broadband") takes off in this country landlines are pretty much a given. I would baulk at paying more than £11 or £12 a month for one though.

Hybrid Fibre/Coax carries a signal much better than copper in the air ever can which is why we are now heading towards 100Mb and up on cable speeds which you will never be able to achieve on a BT line.

[m419]

Virgin Media don't always force phone lines, they may push it during a sales call but if you say no, you mean no! I know someone that gets 10MB broadband on its own for £15.99, theres offers which go around but you need to snap them up at the right time.

Then there is Mobile Broadband, considering the speed of Hutchison 3G's service and the high network coverage consisting of 3G and HSDPA from both 3 and Everything Everywhere(T-Mobile) this is very competitive to areas where BT and ADSL providers can only offer 2MB.

It will get better soon.........O2 is already trialling 4G network coverage in Slough, this means faster speeds and can see it becoming very successful.

The next thing is fibrecity towns, there are towns such as Bournemouth which are fibred by private firms such as Fibre City, you don't need BT or Virgin Media for that!

Virgin Media only offers its phone simply out of 'Generating revenue' why do you think its a bit uncompetitive because they know its fast money and people in this country are too lazy at times to change. They probably don't care if you ditch the landline service, as long as your taking 1 or 2 other services, they are still making money from you.

BT on the other hand suffers when customers migrate or cancel, why? because they can't offer any other service without an active line, they can't offer TV or Broadband, so they depend on customers keeping the landline service, even when they migrate to TalkTalk or Sky's service they still make a bit of revenue from this, but its also still a loss to them.

BT can't even really compete with Mobiles, they have no mobile network and the virtual network they have has a few thousand business customers and some personal customers of which they have to pay for its use to Vodafone.